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Mexican food in NYC is an absolute joke. Burritos here are basically a loose tortilla placed atop some random ingredients, with some white sauce drizzled on top. As a native Californian, it’s an abomination to burrito culture — one must be able to pick up a burrito and stuff into mouth, not turn it into a tortilla salad with your broken plastic take out fork.

As a native Californian, it’s an abomination to burrito culture — one must be able to pick up a burrito and stuff into mouth

I've always found the contrast between Tex-Mex and Cal-Mex interesting, because both Texas and Cali can lay claim to a large Hispanic populations (and are Mexico-adjacent of course), but the cuisine is often jarring to people from the other area.

I've been in the kitchens of probably 20 different Asian cusine restaraunts. Every single one was all people of Asian decent in the back except one that had Hispanic men. Might just vary by area though.

Actually those little Sichuan peppercorns might be cool on pizza. It’s the absolutely tasteless paper-like pepperoni and yucky cheese that put me off their pizza. Just like their burger patties have no taste. I guess it’s better than the steaks which tasted like fish.

The first time I was in China, their hamburgers had cucumbers in them. Not bad, but not pickles, either. This included McDonald's.

Went back about five years later. Pickles were everywhere then.

Had Chinese food in Italy and Turkey. It was as different as traditional Chinese food is to NY style Chinese.

I know some people like to ask me "why go to China and not eat Chinese food?" I did, and a lot of it. It's also really cool to try other cuisines you know from a different society's perspective. You get to try a lot of different stuff in a month.

Edit: the first time I was in China, our contract was made that we were to have both a Chinese and American option at each meal. The American option was straight up NY style Chinese. I always got a kick out of thinking Chinese think we eat General Tso's chicken on the regular.

Americanized/Tex mex food originally was just Mexicans that were now Americans when the border changed. Different groups of immigrants settled Mexico, too. There’s different cheeses and wheat tortillas are used in the north because of the immigrants that settled those regions and due to wheat growing well. It’s not as if Mexican cuisine is homogenized today either. It’s very different depending on the region.

The best Chinese food I've had was in India. Its a bizarre Indian- Chinese fusion that works really well. Im not usually a fan of bastardising cuisines from other countries to appease the locals.. but this worked. And completely agree that it is fun to try different cuisines from different perspectives.

Was it somewhere in Kolkata or in Bihar by chance cuz there's a significant Chinese population there who've created their own Hakka style cuisine that incorporates Indian and Chinese style like you said and it's absolutely amazing.

I've had it in Hyderabad and Bangalore mostly, but its probably found all over the country. The restaurant's i ate at were both owned by 2nd/3rd generation Chinese immigrants to India and said the cuisine was more mandarin inspired.

In Nigeria they have a ton of chinese influence due to the foreign investment in infrastructure and thus a lot of Nigerian chinese food. The funny thing is that each stall specializes in a given dish and they go by numbers. So you go to the number 5 stall? You get number 5. Well, could I get a number 4? "No! This is a number 5 stall! Have you not eyes? Can you not read?"

It is funny because in my city in Mexico, Chinese food is one of the staples and many people say it's the best chinese food, although only the best in Mexico, mind you. But it is a staple because we have a large Chinese community and the restaurants are theirs.

But eventually there are so many descriptions of outfits you start tuning them out and ignoring their details, and so you likely will not notice that as Bateman gets more and more psychopathic, they're becoming increasingly garish and bizarre.

It's a very disconcerting and uncomfortable effect when you notice it, because you realize you're doing what everyone else in the story is doing.

I don't have a very refined palate and I'm from California so reading the book I always assumed the food was appropriate to New York, the late 80's, and the ultra-wealthy eating at Michelin star restaurants. I never really put together that it was satirical until reading editorials on the book later on - which I suppose is the entire point of satire to some degree.

Just for the novelty of it. The only choices at that particular moment where the Russian version of TGI Fridays (called Twig and berries I think) the Marriott, or this a hole in the wall type place with a singing waiter and Mexican food that I had read about in a National Geographic 20 years before that. I’m not sure if it’s the same place I read about in the National Geographic but It was a fun experience

I’m curious why you would order Mexican in Russia. Isn’t being disappointed by the fajitas in Moscow like getting Olive Garden in Times Square and being angry your salad and breadsticks combo wasn’t authentic Italian?

Ha ha exactly. I explained another comment it was because I had read about it in National Geographic when I was a small kid and at that particular moment it was the only choice (in between meetings at the Marriott Nova). I ended up spending a ton of time in Moscow and really getting into Georgian (caucasian mountains) Food which is always an adventure

The herbs they use for the "genuine Mexican flavor" aren't even from the same planet as the real thing it seems, tastes horrible and smells like one of those nasty month old pee bottles my previous roommate used to keep.

For as much shit as we talk about have the best “real Mexican food,” San Diego’s most iconic contribution to the Tex-Mex landscape is the California Burrito; a flank steak burrito filled with French fries. They are amazing, but definitely a bastardization of an already bastardized dish.

It is, but you wouldn’t see an entire ad written in English like this. There might be an English word or two for decoration. Kind of like how an Asian themed add might toss in a Chinese character to keep with the theme.

Suzhou has a large expat community. Lake jinji has a lot of international restaurants and everything is in English.
There used to be a pretty decent Tex mex place there where the fajitas came with a shot of tequila but that closed a few years ago.

There is a sizeable population of Chinese immigrants in latin america, not so much the other way around. But its cool to see the two cultures fuse together with the 1 gen being replaced with their more naturalized children.

There are huge Chinese influences in north Mexico too. Chinese got to Mexico at the beginning of the last century but unlike in the USA, they all intermarried with Mexicans and they took both cuisines to make amazing food. El Paso TX has a lot of Mexican Chinese people.

I’ve been to this restaurant. It’s right around the corner from the Hyatt and the W in Suzhou, where a TON of American product engineers stay. Foxconn, Foxlink, and Pegatron all run production lines in Suzhou, so they get people from Apple, Juul, Fitbit, Motorola, GoPro and some other big players in and out on a regular basis.

Even funnier fact: you eat free if you're wearing a luchador mask! But they are very uncomfortable to wear for a long period of time and I wouldn't recommend it. Often when you go here you will see one guy in
a group wearing a mask haha!

Welcome to reddit. The site is specifically designed to only popularize content the majority of people vote on. If the userbase is skewed to one side politically, which it is, content which gets upvoted will reflect that. I'm not sure exactly what people expect.

Oh absolutely. I posted a meme making fun of the Soviet Union on r/politicalhumor and it just got demolished. If I ever would become the CEO of Reddit, I would just segregate all political shit under a different URL so people would never have to see it if they don't want to.